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    Assessment of development control capacity of mmdas: a study of selected works department in the Gomoa district
    (2021-06-15) Nkum, Justice Godsent;
    Effective development with respect to the capacities of MMDA’s works department has been a major concern for districts across the shores of Ghana. This cancer has been as a result of a lot of factors including political interferences, bribery and corruption, the illegal conversion of residential structures for commercial usage, inadequate equipment and machinery needed for the effective discharge of duty at the various districts, understaffing and inadequate training of staff and many more. The objectives of this study are to assess development control capacity of Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies with particular interest in the works department of MMDAs, investigating the challenges facing development control, with focus on the Gomoa Central, Gomoa East, and Gomoa West Districts in the Central Region of Ghana. The researcher adapted both quantitative and qualitative approaches with regards to the collection of a primary data from fifty respondents. Both deductive and inductive approaches were used for the analysis of the data with the validity and reliability of data being tested using Cronbach’s Alpha test. The empirical data collected were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 21). The results of the analysis revealed that the staffing level of the works department of the MMDA’s needed to be reconsidered to ensure that staff of the works department are not only adequately trained to understand nature and rudiments of their jobs; the staffing level be increased to accommodate more staff to help monitor the developments of buildings in the various communities as a step towards the effective control development in the ever-increasing urban population. Therefore, the study recommends that staff of the MMDAs be periodically trained and appraise on the legal rules for construction work, building regulation/code, land management, town and country planning rules/laws; They should also be made to understanding that as part of their requirement to undertake their dutiesiv in their various capacities, their knowledge of the various tools they need to equip themselves for the job is of eminent importance; MMDAS should use their internal staff to execute majority of their projects instead of hiring or giving out the projects on contract; The MMDAs adapt innovative method of financing public works, such as Public-Private-Partnership; The Central Government should be more flexible in releasing and allocating central budgets to the various MMDAs to better place the latter plan and work more efficiently; The MMDAs should improve remuneration/service conditions to attract more technical/professional staff into the service to help in the attempt to effectively control the development of buildings and other structure in the communities; and the MMDAs encourage stakeholder participation in determining local infrastructure needs.